The Penn's Grove record., 1887-03-12
49th C0NGRESS-2d SESSION
SENATE

SENATE
In the e. 5. Senate on the 81, a
conference was ordered on the Naval
Appropriation bill. The Legislative
Appropriation bill was considered and
passed. with a few amendments. y
conference report on the Sundry Civil
bill vas agreed to; also a conference
report on the bill to provide for bring
ing suits against the United States.
Bills providing for public buildings at
Dayton, Ohio, Sioux City, Iowa, and
Lynn, Massachusetts, were passed
over the Presidens's vetoes. A recess
was taken. In the evening session
another conference was ordered on the
POst.ofiice Appropriation bill. The
Mexican Pension bill was passed as it
came from the House. A conference
report on the bill to adjust heretofore
unadjusted railroad land grants was
agreed to. An urgent deficiency bill
was received from the House, but Mr..
Edmunds objected to its second read
ing. The Deficiency bill was eonsid-
cred. Adjourned.
HOUSE
In the House on the 81, the vetoed
Senate bill. granting arrears of pension
to Thomas $. Hopkins was called up,
but failed to pass yer the veto. The
conference report on the bill regulating
the bringing Of suits against the United
States was agreed to. Mr.. Henderson,
of North Carolina, moved to suspend
the Jules ard pass a bill removing all
restrictions from the sale of leaf tobac-
co by farmers; aboIishing the office OF
~storekeeper at distilleries having a
capacity not exceeding Eve bushels of
grain a day. and repeating the special
tax on the manufacture of stills. Lost
yeas 1873, nays 1l2-for want of two
thirds in the affirmative. Mr.. Gros-
venor, of Ohio, called up the vetoed
bill granting a pension to Sally Ann
Bradley, but it failed to pass over the
veto. In night session, Mr.. Barnes, of
Missouri, under instructions from the
Committee on Appropriations, moved
to suspend the rules and poss an ur-
gent deficiency bill. The bill appTo-
PIRATES for deficiencies in the Post
Office Department S493 go; In the
Treasury Department flor printing one
and two dollar silver certificates and
United States legal tender nOtesl
S27 coo; in ihe Department of Justice,
$3.50 900; and fer the payment of certl-
led claims, 1894, 25j. The bill vas
passed. Mr.. Henderson moved to sus-
pend the rules and pass the Senate bill
giving a pension of $1,000 a year to the
widow Of General Logan. After de-
bate the bill failed to pass for want Of
the necessary two-thirds vote, the yeas
being l45, the nays 113, Adjourned.
The F%orty.ninth Congress ceased to
exist at noon OF the 4tb. All the
regular appropriation bills were got
through and received the Presidents
signature except three. The three
which failed were: The Deficiency bill,
which could not be engrossed in time;
the F~oitl1cations bill, abandoned in
conference, and the River and Harbor
bill, killed by a pocket veto," the
President not having signed 1t. Such
was the haste and confusion of the last
hours of Congress that, according to
an Associated Press despatch, sit is as
yet impossible TO state exactly what
the appropriation bills which have be-
come laws contain, and what has been
eliminated Among the other bills
signed by the President on the 4th,
were the act fer the adjustment of rail-
road land grants and forfeiture OF un-
earned lands, and the act in reference
to the organization OF reserve national
banks. The bill to prevent The employ
ment of alien labor and the bill to pro-
vide for the settlement of controversies
between interstate railroad corpora
lions failed tC receive his signature.
Mr.. Hale, nexplaining to the Senate
the conference report on the Naval
Appropriation bill, said: The appro-
priations in the bill now lin addition to
the running expenses of the Department.
amounted to between eleven and twelve
million dollars for what might be called
the new esrabiishment-the increase of
the navy. 1t comprehended four new
vessels aud two millions for floating
batteries and other structures for har-
Dor defvpces. 1t also comprehended
81 500, 600 for work on vessels already
begun, a little more than two millions
for work on TIE monitors and four mil
lions for plate and gun steel or
forgingS.n In consequence of the fan
ure of the Deficiency bill the act ex"
tending the flee delivery system to
cities and towns having not less than
10, coo inha' Itants or a postal revenue
of not less than $40, 200. becomes in
operative until the beginning of the
next fiscal year, when the regular APP
preparation act goes into effect.